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miha
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 Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:11 am Post subject: Fluxbox and anti-aliasing |
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Maybe I'm using a wrong name but... I successfully set up set-up GNOME to use truetype fonts and it works fine but GNOME's too bloated for me.
Fluxbox... applications see the truetype fonts but how do I make them smooth? Specifically Firebird and few others display menus using standard console font(Courier?) Fluxbox menus are somewhat fuzzy eventhough anti-aliasing is selected.
Any pointers? If req I'll post my config files.
I'll appreciate any help. |
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BiggJ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:04 am Post subject: |
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When in Fluxbox,
[Right Click] -> "Settings" -> "Configure" -> "Antialias"
worked for me.
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| biggj wrote: | When in Fluxbox,
[Right Click] -> "Settings" -> "Configure" -> "Antialias"
worked for me.
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Did that... Menus look alright but Mozilla is still funky. |
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searcher
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Mozilla has it's own font settings. Search the forum, you will find loads of info about this.
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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I did. Tried setting that in user.js(which doesn't appear to exist by default) so I manually created it - no go and when I try to edit the settings using about:config it doesn't save.
| searcher wrote: | Mozilla has it's own font settings. Search the forum, you will find loads of info about this.
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ikaro
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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which font are you using in fluxbox ? ( look in the style )
sometimes its problems with the fonts, if you use something else, they work.
take alook at this snapshot of my desktop ( fluxbox )
1600x1200
the font for the menus and window title is "sans" |
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I am using that font.
I think I made some progress... Webpages appear in truetype fonts but the menus still use courier-like font.
Any pointers on that?
| ikaro wrote: | which font are you using in fluxbox ? ( look in the style )
sometimes its problems with the fonts, if you use something else, they work.
take alook at this snapshot of my desktop ( fluxbox )
1600x1200
the font for the menus and window title is "sans" |
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ikaro
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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you mean the fluxbox menus or the mozilla menus ?
i cant get change the mozilla menus either , the File , Edit , View, Go , ookmarks, tools, help
Ive tried to ask on the mozilla forums, but they didnt know either.
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, mozilla menus... damn! Atleast I'm not the only one.
What font does your setup display in mozilla menus? |
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ikaro
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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i dont know whats the name of the font, but here is a snapshot for comparation between bluefish and mozilla.
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syscrash
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ikaro wrote: | i dont know whats the name of the font, but here is a snapshot for comparation between bluefish and mozilla.
snapshot |
Ahhhh 
Did you enable the truetype USE flag when you emerged xfree? Did you compile mozilla with gtk2?
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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I'd be happy if I could get even that in Mozilla
| ikaro wrote: | i dont know whats the name of the font, but here is a snapshot for comparation between bluefish and mozilla.
snapshot |
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miha
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| Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Mozilla was compiled with gtk2.
Xfree, most likely, was NOT compiled with truetype flag.
Could that be an issue?
| syscrash2k wrote: | | ikaro wrote: | i dont know whats the name of the font, but here is a snapshot for comparation between bluefish and mozilla.
snapshot |
Ahhhh
Did you enable the truetype USE flag when you emerged xfree? Did you compile mozilla with gtk2?
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[smeagol]
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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according to the outputs of etcat, and wise ircers from #gentoo, it does affect antialiasing.
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miha
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| [smeagol] wrote: | | according to the outputs of etcat, and wise ircers from #gentoo, it does affect antialiasing. |
It was compiled with truetype. Anyway, other fonts work fine except for the webpage fonts, those look fugly as hell. Tiny, unreadable etc.
Any suggestions? Also, I'm thinking about unselecting "let websites use their fonts" or whatever it says and setting default fonts for all of them.. but.. can't pick any that look decent on most of the pages. Any suggestions with this?
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| Code: | FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/monotype/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
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| Code: | <!-- Font directory list configured on -->
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/win</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/corefonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/artwiz</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi</dir> |
| Code: | // TrueType
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
// if libfreetype was built without hinting compiled in
// it is best to leave hinting off
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
// below a certian pixel size anti-aliased fonts produce poor results
pref("font.antialias.min", 10);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.8");
// sample prefs for TrueType font dirs
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/monotype/TrueType");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts/win");
//pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/u/sam/tt_font3");
pref("font.FreeType2.printing", true);
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